A method for migrating security benchmark compliance content from a source platform to a target platform includes filtering a set of configuration parameters in a source platform to a subset of configuration parameters, each of the parameters corresponding to a respectively different entry in a security checklist of a security benchmark. Then, a listing is presented in a user interface of each of the configuration parameters and for each configuration parameter, a corresponding entry in the security checklist regulating the configuration parameter according to a range of values. Finally, the configuration parameters in the subset are applied to a target platform excepting for at least one of the configuration parameters. Instead, alternative value within the range is received as input in the user interface and is applied to the target platform in lieu of the at least one of the configuration parameters.